I want to add balloons (tooltips) and status messages to:
1. Widgets in tabbed frames;
2. Widgets in ‘secondary’ top level widgets.
The Perl code below attempts to do both. It works fine for widgets in tabbed frames.
It does not work for widgets in secondary top level widgets.
I get the result of trying to attach the balloon. For successful attachments this seems to be set to 1.
For the balloons in the other top level widget it is set to 7.
Does anyone know how to get a balloon successfully attached to a secondary top level widget so that it can be seen?
The output of the print statements is
attach result <1> for balloon <Tab 1_Balloon>
attach result <1> for balloon <Tab 2_Balloon>
attach result <1> for balloon <Tab 3_Balloon>
balloon <Tk::Balloon=HASH(0x1b5b768)>
attach result <7> for toplevel Entry balloon
use strict "vars";
use Tk;
use Tk::TabFrame;
my ($a_tbfr, $tab_mw, $frame_wg);
my ($lb_str, $en_str, %tabwg, $tabwg_item, $current_product, $gen_str,
+ $j, $j_str, %wg, $wg_item, $att_res);
my ($msgarea, $balloon_msg, $status_msg, $bl_str);
my ($button_sc, $toplevel_entry_wg, $toplevel_wg, $balloon); 
$current_product = 'unset';
$tab_mw = MainWindow->new;
$tab_mw->Label(-text => 'Tabbed Frame to Check Tooltips')->grid(-row =
+> 0);
# create the tabbed frame
$a_tbfr = $tab_mw->TabFrame
(
    -font =>'-adobe-times-medium-r-bold--14',
    -tabcurve =>4,
    -padx => 10,
    -pady => 10,
    -width => 400
);
# create the message area for tooltips
$msgarea = $tab_mw->Label(-borderwidth => 2, -relief => 'groove')
  ->grid(-row => 3);
# create the tabbed frames each with a label and entry box
$a_tbfr->grid ('-row' => 1);
for($j = 1; $j <= 3; $j ++) {

    $j_str = "Tab " . $j;
    $tabwg{$j_str} = $a_tbfr->Frame
    (
        -caption => $j_str,
    );
    $lb_str = "Tab " . $j . '_Label';
    $wg{$lb_str} = $tabwg{$j_str}->Label(-text => "Text in Label in $j
+_str",
                      -width => 50)->grid(-row => 2, -column=>0);
    $en_str = "Tab " . $j . '_Entry';
    $wg{$en_str} = $tabwg{$j_str}->Entry (-text => $en_str,
                      -width => 20)->grid(-row => 3, -column=>0);
    $bl_str = "Tab " . $j . '_Balloon';
    $wg{$bl_str} = $tabwg{$j_str}->Balloon(-statusbar => $msgarea);
    $balloon_msg = "Tab " . $j . " balloon / tooltips message";
    $status_msg  = "Tab " . $j . " status message";
    $att_res = $wg{$bl_str}->attach($wg{$en_str}, -balloonmsg => $ball
+oon_msg,
                                -statusmsg  => $status_msg);
    print "attach result <$att_res> for balloon <$bl_str>\n";
}
# create a TopLevel widget
$toplevel_wg = $tab_mw->Toplevel();
# create an entry box and two labels for this toplevel widget
$toplevel_wg->Label(-text => "Text above entry box")->grid(-row => 0);
$toplevel_entry_wg = $toplevel_wg->Entry(-width => 20)->grid(-row => 1
+, -column=>0);
$toplevel_wg->Label(-text => "Text below entry box")->grid(-row => 2);
$balloon = $toplevel_entry_wg->Balloon(-statusbar => $msgarea);
print "balloon <$balloon>\n";
$att_res = $balloon->attach($balloon, -balloonmsg => "toplevel entry b
+ox balloon/tooltip",
                                -statusmsg  => "toplevel entry box sta
+tus");
print "attach result <$att_res> for toplevel Entry balloon\n";
MainLoop;

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